Hearts for Healthcare Workers
Ivywood Classical Academy is supporting local area hospitals, who are battling COVID-19, with some much needed kindness and love. Students and families are making hearts/messages which can be put up on hospital walls to brighten the days of healthcare workers and…
Our Virtual Classrooms
To say that our teachers are incredible just won’t be enough to describe them! Since Michigan schools have closed, due to COVID-19, our teachers have been working hard to continually provide Ivywood students with learning opportunities. Our teachers have taken…
March is Reading Month
This Ivywood parent was disappointed that she was not going to be able to be a Mystery Reader for her daughter’s class since schools are closed. She decided if the students’ homes are their classrooms right now, then she could…
Learning Corner: 13 Colonies
Mrs. Adkins 1st graders are not letting something like a school closure stop them from learning the 13 Colonies. Many of the students are taking this time to map out each of the 13 colonies and/or learn a song about…
School Closure – Ivywood Parent Experience Testimonials
We asked Ivywood parents what their experience has been continuing the learning process at home and this is what they had to say! Parent experience #1 Ivywood’s Virtues have become life lessons for us these past few days in our…
Telling Stories Using Shapes & Lines
Ivywood’s 4th graders were recently learning about the French artist Henri Matisse. The students were asked to use a variety of shapes in a story collage and then add 5-10 different kind of lines to support their story collage and…
Learning Opportunities
Ivywood students may not be in our classrooms right now and they may have chosen a different uniform to wear in their home classroom, but they are still learning. Our dedicated teachers are providing students and families opportunities to continue…
Learning Corner: Cell Structures & Processes
This year both the 5th and 2nd graders at Ivywood are learning about cell structures and processes. At the end of their unit, the students in the 5th grade class made a coloring book to share some facts that they…
Learning Corner: Bones and Ligaments
It was all about bones and ligaments in the 3rd grade class this week. The students are learning about the human body and how our bones and ligaments work together. The students made models of hands (strings being the ligaments)…
Mystery Reader
March is Reading Month and our 1st grade class had a special treat when their Mystery Reader for the day was a pilot for Delta Airlines! This parent came to class in his pilot uniform and read the class a…